Shared Hosting - Bad for SEO? (exp. Godaddy)

[kchandler]

There were a lot of questions and data on this a few years back and nothing terribly recent so i wanted to get the discussion going again and see if any new data has been published.

Is hosting your website on a shared host like Godaddy or Network Solutions going to hurt your rankings because their holds a chance that you could be on the same IP as spammy websites?

My gut feeling is no primarily because almost 90% of the worldwide web is on shared hosting but i do not have a lot of data to back it up. Id love to hear some feedback.

Cheers - Kyle

[BeardoCo]

one thing to keep in mind is server down time and server speed.  A lot of websites can be affected by having a slow host or the website being deindexed for significant downtime.  I have a client right now that is on network solutions and had his site deindexed because it was down for 5 days because of a unix environment issue.  The website is still taking 8-12 seconds to load and is killing his traffic.  We are in the process of moving it now ;).

[kchandler]

Great share, not sure how i didn't stumble over this in my research

[Branagan]

Here's Cutt's answer to that: Matt Cutts on Shared Hosting

[EGOL]

Most websites are on shared hosting and Google knows that.   (My guess is that at least 95% of websites are on shared hosting.)

So, I don't think that Google is going to discriminate against sites on shared hosting.

I think that the greater danger of shared hosting is the hosting company cramming too many websites on a server and damaging the performance.   And, some hosts promise "unlimited bandwidth" and then throttle your success in other ways.

Most of my sites are on shared hosting.  If you have a good host I would not worry about it.